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Old 03-24-2002, 12:20 PM   #1
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Switching Gravel

Any ideas, I'm going to take out the Puca Shell substrate and put in Aragonite.... I have a 55 and 80 + lbs of LR and mostly soft corals the tank has been set up for 2 years and I know I don't want to lose all the critters in my current gravel. Any Ideas will be most helpful !!!

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Old 03-24-2002, 01:25 PM   #2
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Poseidon,

Don’t worry about losing critters from your current gravel.

You just need enough to seed your new bed.

Then you grow your sand bed fauna by feeding is.

Some kits from Indo Pacific Sea Farms and/or Island aquatics are also highly recommended.

http://ipsf.com/

http://www.inlandaquatics.com/

I talk about setting up DSBs on my WEB site.

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Old 03-24-2002, 08:06 PM   #3
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thanks for the reply, I ended up taking out about halh the old and putting in 90lbs on aragamax sand right on top... now i have a deep sand bed .... Now What ? Is a DSB a self starting Nitrate Filter? if not what do I use to seed it ?

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